20040131 ~ Cruising Jan 31 2004 Western Who's with us?

[goofyaboutmickey7]

Hey Gary, I hope i still recognize you after all that working out,, any body want annie and i to smuggle some canadian stuff on to the ship, i drink the n.a. stuff o'douls molson excel labbats .5 and about appearances in my suit Lets put it this way annie won't allow me to wear my speedo hadd everybody Arrrggghhh Eh Randy

 

[kmc33]

Here's a link to what kinds are on board...
Beer brands onboard

Looks like Bud, Miller Lite and Heineken on draught... not my favorites, so I don't know that I will do the beer package. I would probably not have my mug with me when I wanted to get one anyway. For me, I wouldn't save money with the beer package... just drink more beer -- maybe that's not such a bad thing. It looks like you get your 22 oz. mug filled for the same price as you pay for a pint draught.

The good news is, I also love Konk Koolers!!! I might have a new drink for the week although they are a little sweet to drink too many.

 

[The4OfUs]

Originally posted by goofyaboutmickey7
Hey Gary, I hope i still recognize you after all that working out,, any body want annie and i to smuggle some canadian stuff on to the ship, i drink the n.a. stuff o'douls molson excel labbats .5 and about appearances in my suit Lets put it this way annie won't allow me to wear my speedo hadd everybody Arrrggghhh Eh Randy

Ooh! Sleemans! *grin*

Boy, I love draught beer, but none of those appeals to me...my mom is Dutch, and we have family over alot with the REAL Heinekin, so this stuff here in the USA doens't really appeal to me (in Holland it's a lager, whereas here it's a pilsner...or vice versa...I can never remember!). Looking at the list, there aren't really any I really LIKE...I'll probably be drinking lots o'Bass Ale with some Corona thrown in from time to time. I'm really surprised that they have such a limited selection, and it's all "the same", you know? Microbrews are so popular nowadays up here in the Northeast, you'd think they'd at least have a few different things on there. Ah well. Those mixed drinks are looking better all the time! *grin*

I have to say I was impressed they have my favorite white wine on the list- Caymus Conundrum - not found in most places. Believe me when I say that wine is so buttery and smooth, and I'm a complete red wine drinker. We'll be having a bottle or two of that one, I'm sure!

Randy, I got to be quite the queen o'non-alcoholic beers while pregnant...and to this day we always have some in the fridge. I do not do soda so when I want a carbonated drink but don't want to get sleepy, I have what we call "N A's" - that's MY soda!

 

[goofyaboutmickey7]

All this talk about partying and getting to meet all my lime green friends it's really getting exciting plus I had to post my 50th entry. Arrrggghhh Eh! Randy

 

[The4OfUs]

In the Romantic Escape at Sea package, we get a couples massage - does that mean we're in the same room? I hope so as that might aleiviate any of DH's concerns....

I wanted to search for posts about this, but that silly search is "turned off" (which happens when theres alot of traffic on the boards...)

 

[Kabuli1]

Hi everybody!!!!

Well, I just finished my homework for yesterday! I finished sorting the stuff in 20 boxes in the basement - all the stuff is either packed or in the sale or thrown away!!! now for the 10 boxes in my living room! It's time for a break! Then I'm going to empty/sort pack Randy's bedside table (insert scary music here)!

The party tonight sounds perfect. We're up to 12 degrees now. How 'bout NO bathing suits! (Karyn, you baaad girl!) Umbrellas or splashing ....... hmmmm hard choice.

Randy was not so pretty happy w/ the beer choices last year. I doubt that I'll make the effort to take good beer along, tho. I do bring my own wine. It's traditional, every cruise we go on I bring a bottle of some expensive icewine and we drink it on the deck one evening watching the sunset.

We booked in June, I think - no upgrade, but we have two cabins that have linked ressies, so I didn't really want to be - tho if they moved us to connecting verandah cabins - that would be cool. As it is one of the cabins we have is one of those cat.6 cabins that was redesignated as a cat 7 because of the obstructed view. I'm really interested in experincing that!

Well, since I started this, I've had three phone calls!

I need to get on w/ today's work! See you all tonight at Randy and Annie's!

aryn

Karyn

 

[The4OfUs]

Originally posted by Kabuli1
Randy was not so pretty happy w/ the beer choices last year. I doubt that I'll make the effort to take good beer along, tho. I do bring my own wine. It's traditional, every cruise we go on I bring a bottle of some expensive icewine and we drink it on the deck one evening watching the sunset.

Oh YUM! Icewine is AMAZING!! That reminds me to pack some of the Camus we've been saving - DH would get a bottle for Xmas every year from his last restaurant, and because it's like $100 a bottle, we have never had any...that sounds like the perfect idea, can we just take a bottle of wine on the deck like that? Why do I have it in my head that it's like clubs, where you can't leave with a drink?

 

[Kabuli1]

Nikki, we'll share ours if you share yours! I think we drank ours on our verandah last time. Oh, we're bringing Inniskillen! You can ask for a corkscrew from Room Service.

Randy survived on MGD on our last Disney cruise. Oh, and I like the Caymus Conundrum wine as well! I don't think we'll do the wine package this time, to - that turned out to be pretty expensive and we ended up being a little too tipsy at dinner every evening. Unless, Dean, you want to go halves on the premium wine package?????

Back to work! I'd far rather hang around here and talk about important stuff!

Karyn

 

[The4OfUs]

Originally posted by Kabuli1
Nikki, we'll share ours if you share yours! I think we drank ours on our verandah last time. Oh, we're bringing Inniskillen! You can ask for a corkscrew from Room Service.

Randy survived on MGD on our last Disney cruise. Oh, and I like the Caymus Conundrum wine as well! I don't think we'll do the wine package this time, to - that turned out to be pretty expensive and we ended up being a little too tipsy at dinner every evening. Unless, Dean, you want to go halves on the premium wine package?????

Back to work! I'd far rather hang around here and talk about important stuff!

Karyn

Wow! We haven't had Inniskillen since our...umm, 9th anniversary, I think! Sounds good to me, there's nothing like sharing a good glass of wine in a beautiful setting!

The wine package DOES seem expensive for what they offer, I had read that there are other choices you can "buy up", for extra $$...but like I told DH the other day, I don't know that I'll necessarily want wine with dinner every single night, so let's wing it! And not all good wine has to be that expensive - right now one of my favorites is Yellow Tail Shiraz, and that goes for like $9 a bottle at the grocery stores in NH - although I was at a restaurant recently where they sold it for $25/bottle...ah, markup...

OK, back to work, I'm far too into these boards today...

 

[Kabuli1]

Have you noticed that Cap hasn't been on today to see what great over achievers we are?

I really do need to get back to work . . .

Karyn

 

[dheller97]

Can't do wines - gives me an immediate headache.

Not into fancy beers either. Only drink one kind: COLD! Might try one of the umbrella drinks though that so many people talk about on the boards.

Dean

 

[The4OfUs]

Originally posted by dheller97
Can't do wines - gives me an immediate headache.

Not into fancy beers either. Only drink one kind: COLD! Might try one of the umbrella drinks though that so many people talk about on the boards.

Dean

All kinds of wines, Dean? I have an issue with Cabernet, it is a guaranteed migraine when I have one...but I can do other reds, like Merlot, Shiraz, Zinfandel...that's another reason why the $100 Camus bottles are still unopened! The thing is, the last time I tried, magic, no headache...so I'll do a test run BEFORE the cruise, because I dont' want to chance a migraine on board!

French wines are more likely than California or other places to cause headaches, more tanins and things like sediment, etc...and then there's white wines, or the ice wine like Karyn mentioned, which are so sweet and concentrated (they literally freeze the grapes to get this)

Speaking of this, are there wine tastings on board, I think I read about them???? And I SO want to take a tour of the galley with DH, I think he'd get a kick out of it!

 

[Cap]

The4ofUs,

When Judi and I had the couples massage last year at Castaway Cay, we were both in the same small beach house. There were two massage tables, about five feet apart, and two massuses (sp?), one for Judi and one for me. It was all very up and up. I was nervous, but found it acceptable. Judi loved it, but she would go for a massage every week if we could afford it.

Tell your husband to relax. He can even keep his swimsuit on.

 

[The4OfUs]

That's what I was hoping for. I've had one professional massage at a casino in Connecticut, and I LOVED it, once I got over the weirdness of being naked and having another person rub me *rolls eyes* - I think being in the same room will let us joke around a bit and help him relax. I'm not even sure what he's uptight about, all he admitted was that he was a little unsure of it...but he's looking forward to trying it!



That Monday is going to be a fun cruise day for us grown ups, 10am brunch, 4:45pm massage...I can't wait!!

 

[Cap]

Nikki, if you find out anything about a Galley Tour, please let me know. My wife, Judi, would love to see that and I would be interested, since a long long time ago I was worked in the hospitality business.

I want to go on a bridge tour. I understand that they have started doing those again on port days. Don't know if the Orange Alert has cut it off again.

Randy, when we're on the cruise, you could help me if you casually work into a conversation with Judi how great it is to keep the hot tub running in the Winter. She's convinced that the cost of operation in the Winter is way too expensive, so we drain ours after Thanksgiving and don't start it up until April.

UPS has gone by four times today, but no docs.

 

[The4OfUs]

I thought I remembered it being the 2nd sea day, so I went to the castawayclub website and checked the navigator for Thursday at sea - and it says there that at 11am they start giving out tickets for the Galley tour, which is at 2:45pm that day.

Meet you there?

There used to be a WONDERFUL show on the Food Network called "Into the Fire", where they showed what it was REALLY like to be in the kitchen in places like giant casinos in Las Vegas, or exclusive restaurants - none of this silly staged stuff you see on network tv. I think a tour of the galley will be much like that, although at 2:45 it shouldn't be too crazy. DH said he will walk through and giggle under his breath that he isn't the one in the kitchen for once!

 

[OKWMEMBER]

I'm with you, Dean! My favorite beer is cold and yellow, with the exception of green on St. Patricks day! I got one of the 22 oz mugs and I used it every night in the club area. I didn't take it up on deck. It nows serves as my quarter jar when I emty the change from my pockets. I think I got my moneys worth out of it.

Cap, I'd like to take a bridge tour, also! We'll have to make arrangements.

By the way. IT"S STILL SNOWING HERE!!! LES, THE JOKE'S OVER, OK?!?!?!?

Boy, I hope my snow blower starts tonight or it could get ugly!!!

 

[goofyaboutmickey7]

hey cap,, no problem with working in the hot tub conversation. Hot tubs are so energy effecient these days it costs minimal and they are meant ot be filled and used year round especially in the winter it is better for the hot tub to be full of water and operating so that things don't seize up or get corrosion and water is cheap. how is that for starters? Arrrgggghhhhh eh! Randy

 

[kmc33]

Okay, okay... I will admit it. I am a beer snob! Although I hate to use those words. Given the choice, I do like microbrews. But I never turn down a COLD beer, any kind. Well, maybe with the exception of Old Milwaukee.

 

[The4OfUs]

I too am fairly picky about my beer, and tend to stay away from the "mass produced" ones...although I will say that Old Milwaukee makes, in my opinion, THE best non-alcoholic brew I've had...which is strange cause their normal beer stinks! *grin*

Headed home...I think I'll have a beer when I get there!

Cheers!